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I had been thinking of becoming a freelance florist for a couple of years and I was on the look out for a course which would meet my expectations. I wanted something up to date and I wished to learn skills which would take me through traditional designs but also more on trend arrangements and techniques. I had been considering a couple of courses in London, but there was always the additional cost of travel or accommodation, however I wasn't sure if I'd get the same standard of course if I opted for a local school When I found out about Georgia and the school I was very excited as it sounded exactly what I was looking for.i knew the course was perfect for me the minute I met Georgia. Such an inspirational lady with a passion for flowers, immense knowledge of floristry and heaps of kind and funny encouragement...Georgia has taught me all the skills I need. I started as a flower enthusiast and left as a professional florist and my own business. All the materials are of brilliant quality, there's always plenty of choice to work with.even after I'd finished the course i can still rely on the support of the school and my fellow students which is so lovely and helpful.I would recommend this course to anyone considering floristry as a career, I can confidently say...you won't regret it!
Fig and Flower
I attended a 2 day one to one intro to floristry course with Georgia at the school in June 2014 to see if my love for flowers really could be more than just a dream. I loved those two days more than anything and it only confirmed what I already knew...I had to leave my current job in the exhibition industry and become a florist straight away! Ha! If only it could happen that quick! I knew that in the future that is what I had to do, I just needed to start planning! Georgia had said I really should join the Career Change course in March 2015 as that would help me with everything I wanted to know. I thought about it for ages and struggled with how I would take every Friday off at my permanent work and in the end after much worrying and thinking, I took a massive leap and just booked it! Best thing I have ever done! The course was full with love, laughter, support and genuine encouragement. Not just from Georgia but from Christine who was assisting Georgia and all the other girls on the course. Each week we would learn different sections of floristry as well as be able to practice and each week one or a few of the girls would have woes and worries about their new business ventures and we'd all listen and support each other, giving advice and brain storming to try and sort any problem out. This was also helped by the gorgeous cake supplied by Philippa Vine from the Bluebell Farm Shop....yum! We would leave there full to the brim and cheeks hurting from laughing so much, and our problems put to bed. The last day of the course was so emotional but with a Facebook group and a next meeting date already in place everyone left feeling like it defiantly wasn't goodbye forever. We also left feeling confident that we could all have our floristry businesses up and running with a little hard work, dedication, positivity and that we could contact Georgia if we needed any advice/help on anything! With the support from everyone including Georgia and Christine on our Facebook group everyone helped me and gave me advice on roads I should or should not take once the course was finished. Even if it was just to vent in the group, it helped! I've finally purchased my vintage camper which I plan to sell abundance of flowers from in the next few weeks! I do believe all the girls involved in the March 2015 Career Change group played a massive part in me having the strength to have the confidence to do so! I'm hoping mine and all the girls businesses are a huge success and I know we will all remain to support one another throughout our flowery journey. I could not recommend Georgia's courses enough, they really are life changing. Once you go, you really won't want to leave!
Ivy Florence
The Enchanted Flower came about on my yoga Mat! The teacher taking the class asked us to think about our dreams & what we would love to be doing?.. Flowers of course, but not only that, an old shepherd's hut popped into my mind! Little did I know, my next teacher was lined up & sitting on the mat opposite me.. (talk about When the student is ready the teacher will appear!) Georgia & I were both as shocked as each other when I turned up for my first day at the school & realised that in actual fact wed shared a yoga class for over a year! Some things are just meant to be.The inspirational learning environment of The Sussex Flower School gave me the confidence to grow my business into what it is today. The career change course covers everything you will need to get your business started and you will meet lovely like minded students to share your experiences with. I highly recommend anyone needing help to make their flowery dreams come true, go see Georgia (The flowery godmother!)'
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Oregon Festival
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The Shedd's annual August classic Songbook festival, Oregon Festival of American Music features classic musical theatre, cabaret, and standards-based jazz.
The Emerald City Jazz Kings
The Shedd Institute's resident historic jazz & classic American Songbook ensemble is now in its 22nd season, offering 4 all-new programs each year in Eugene, Florence and Corvallis.
Shedd Classical
The Shedd Institute's classical music series, featuring both self-produced local and national artists. Shedd Classical touches on the full extent of the European art music tradition, with a special interest in the Americas and 20th c.
Shedd Theatricals
Shedd Theatricals offers full, live-orchestra productions of the best of classic Broadway from the 1940s-60s and the fun-loving, witty, and totally sparkling musical comedies of the 1920s and '30s.
Mr. Tom's Magical Moombah!
Mr. Tom's Magical Moombah is a musical vaudeville for kids! Filled with skits, songs and contests, the Moombah introduces youngsters to the great songs that everyone should know!
Now Hear This
The Now Hear This presents 35 to 40 concerts each year in a broad variety of genres from jazz and classical to bluegrass, world music and country, and more.
Shedd Presents
Shedd Presents offers a fascinating mix of special projects by top local artists. It regularly premieres projects that subsequently become permanent ongoing features in the Shedd mix.
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Bruce Haines has been teaching choir, band and strings, conducting, singing, and playing in musicals and opera for 51 years. He has taught music in public schools in four different states and has worked in television and film; credits include music for the television show "Murder She Wrote" and the film "Stand By Me" directed by Rob Reiner. He worked for Eugene Opera for eight years while he completed his M.Ed. at U. of Oregon.
Bruce has been working in San Francisco Bay Area theaters since 1990. For the last five years, he taught strings and served as an accompanist at the Conservatory of Vocal/Instrumental Arts (COVA), a K-8 Music Conservatory Charter School, in Oakland CA. He has been accompanying the Chabot College, Hayward CA flute and oboe majors in their bi-annual qualifying recitals for the last 6 years. He is newly returned to Eugene and delighted to be back in beautiful Oregon.
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"My greatest joy is infecting my students with my own love and enthusiasm for playing music. I love seeing the "lights going on" when the student learns new skills and gets excited about playing. The most effective teaching comes from helping people to find the musician in themselves, joining them in their voyage of discovery, and on their own terms, as opposed to trying to impose my version of what they should become. Each of us has our own reasons for learning music and we each have our own learning style. My job is to recognize learning styles and guide the student toward the discovery of what that becomes."
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Bruce teaches students of all ages piano, collaborative piano, voice, violin, viola, cello and bass.
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MY cucumbers! Cassie lives in Indiana and usually has dirt under her fingernails.
Some people LOVE Cucumbers! Dice 'em or slice 'em, put slices on your eyes, make a soothing skin cream, hair tonic! Sulphur in cucumbers helps stimulate the growth of hair and makes it thick and healthy. Although less nutritious than most fruit, cukes are delicious and good for your health in many ways.
- Magnesium, potassium, and the mineral silicon in Cucumbers keep your skin beautiful! The juice cleans your pores by removing dirt, bacteria and excess oil. Cucumbers have a natural cooling effect and reduce the redness, inflammation of blemishes. Their Vitamin E fights free radicals and heals scars. They treat bad breath, so you will look and smell good!
- Cucumbers will help heal stomach ulcers. Drinking two glasses of cucumber juice every day can cure heartburn. Cukes help reduce your blood pressure. And they lower blood sugars, helping with diabetes.
- Cucumber contains polyphenols called lignans, and phytonutrients called cucurbitacins. They help prevent the growth of breast, uterus, and prostate cancers.
- They help get rid of excess uric acid in the body and help maintain healthy kidneys and bladder conditions, even prevent the formation of kidney stones. They also help digestion and reduce constipation!
- Vitamin B and electrolytes in the cucumber will be useful to help relieve headaches.
- Weight loss! Cucumbers are 95% water and low calorie! They will help keep you hydrated and delay hunger, as well as improve your joint health and reduce bad cholesterol!
Cucumbers belong to the Cucurbitaceae family, which includes squashes (including pumpkins), luffas, melons, and watermelons. Cucumbers grew wild in India over 4000 years ago and have since traveled worldwide! They have been traded by empires, eaten every day by emperors, brought to Haiti by Columbus in 1494, banned as deadly at times! In 2010 worldwide cucumber production was 57.5 million tons, with majority of the world's production and export being located in China (40.7 million tons)! As of a 2013 article, In the United States, consumption of pickles has been slowing, while consumption of fresh cucumbers is rising!
Huge Selection of Extraordinary Varieties!
Sizes from itsy tiny watermelon-like heirloom Mexican Sour Gherkin AKA Mouse Melons, sandia de raton, to small bumpy pickling types, substantial juicy slicers, to longs like wonderful Chinese Suyos!
Cucumbers can be green, white, golden orange, healthy bitter red orange spiky Gaks, up to 3 meter long brown Kigelias, brilliant red Dragon's Eggs! You just haven't lived until you've tried a few exotics!
The different shapes are a treat! Mouse Melons, round lemon cucumbers, the standard long shapes, fat Hmongs, African Horned Cucumbers!
You can get big viners, or bush type patio container types with smaller leaves at shorter intervals. Compact yet lots of production!
Now we have varieties producing all female flowers (gynoecious types) that produce seedless fruit earlier have more concentrated production, a longer shelf life. No bees are needed. In experimental trials the following varieties have produced high yields and have resistance or tolerance to common diseases: Burpee Hybrid, Comet A II, Dasher II, Marketmore 80, Slice Master, Sprint 440 II, and Victory!
Disease Resistant Varieties
Read the notes about these varieties! These are features you want to see when picking varieties!
Long Green Slicing
Burpless (hybrid – 62 days to harvest; the original sweet, long, Chinese-type hybrid; does well on a trellis
Marketmore 76 – 68 days; very uniform, dark green, straight fruit; multiple disease resistance
Straight 8 – 58 days; AAS winner; long-time favorite; excellent flavor; evenly dark green fruit
Long Green Slicing (compact plant)
Bush Crop – 55 days to harvest; delicious; 6-8 inch fruit on dwarf, bushy plants
Fanfare – hybrid – 63 days; AAS winner; great taste; high yield; extended harvest; disease resistant
Salad Bush – hybrid – 57 days; AAS winner; uniform 8 inch fruit on compact plants; tolerant to a wide variety of diseases
Marketmore 97 – 55 days. One of the best early northern cucumbers producing long dark green fruit, non bitter. This excellent slicing cucumber variety is tolerant of powdery mildew, cucumber mosaic virus and resistant to scab, providing a good crop under adverse conditions. Very dark green, looks thick skinned, bumpy.
Best of all is to plant powdery mildew resistant varieties like AAS winner gynoecious and parthenocarpic Diva!
Early Varieties
Marketmore 80
BETH ALPHA – 58 days Heirloom. The original Middle-East type. Often a parent for the wonderful high-end Slicing hybrid cucumbers. Probably the best all round cuke. Early, productive over long season, mild. Thin skin, wonderful taste with no 'bitter ends'.
Dasher II Early, dark green; concentrated set
Very early: Lightning, Speedway, Thunder
Heat/Cold, Drought Tolerant Varieties
If your area has short cool summers, go for early, cold tolerant, smaller fruited varieties, container types. In hot areas, enjoy those big slicers and Japanese longs! Sometimes heat and drought go together, or you would just like to save water. Here's a great page at SFGate that lists six heat tolerant varieties with all their details! Little Leaf H-19 (parthenocarpic) and Suyo Longs are terrific! Ashley withstands heat and has good downy mildew resistance.
Monoecious or Gynoecious
Affects your choice of plant for harvest! Monoecious is over the season a steady table supply harvest. Gynoecious is like bush plants, all at once harvest for canning. Female flowers of gynoecious varieties still need to be fertilized with pollen from male flowers, so a certain percentage of monoecious plants need to be planted along with the gynoecious plants to serve as pollenizers. Most seed companies provide cucumber seed blends that contain 85% to 90% gynoecious seed and 10% to 15% monoecious seed.
NOTE: If you are planting non gynoecious types, all female flowers, not to worry if first flowers don't make baby cukes! Male blossoms come first so they can fertilize the female blooms unless you have an all female no pollination needed gynoecious and parthenocarpic variety. Cucumber vines will produce the greatest amount of female flowers when day length shortens to approximately 11 hours per day. Plant a round at the time you can hit that window!
Choosing Companion Plants
Your climate, soil and many, many other factors determine how well plants grow together. I've seen gardeners make exact opposite claims with the pictures to prove it. Bottom line is try things for yourself!
Companion plants enhance each other's growth, repel pests! Adding companion plants adds a whole new dimension to planning your garden! Spacing changes. Locations change. Your plants are healthier, there is more production, your growing season is extended. By intermingling companion plants, biodiversity happens naturally. For example, rather than having a separate herb area, spread them throughout your garden. Put those herbs to work beside veggie plants they help and favor! Plant 4 or 5 plants with an herb at the hub of the wheel! The herb will serve all those plants at once!
Cucumbers & Dill! This is a companion combo based on timing and usage! Plant Dill at the same time as your cukes, and with your cucumbers so they will mature at the same time for pickling, probiotics, and you have convenience of harvest! Another natural combination is basil and tomatoes!
A super spatial combo is trellising Cucumbers below, letting pole beans grow up, through and above the cukes!
Cucumber Beetles are BAD. They vector bacterial wilts, squash mosaic virus, and others. They harm beans and Cucurbits, the Cucumber family – that's cucumbers, squash, pumpkin, ZUCCHINI, some gourds.
RADISHES get the gold star award! They repel a variety of beetles, including the nasty disease carrying Cucumber Beetle! Plant Radishes, followed by Cucumbers so the radishes will be up and running when your cucumbers need them! Let the radishes grow out. It's not like you are planting a crop of radishes there. You want them to mingle among your cukes. You won't need very many radishes to do this. If you didn't get them in before planting time, get them up and growing ASAP!
Other helpers! Basil or summer savory, and dwarf marigolds, can mask cucumbers from cucumber pests like striped or spotted cucumbers beetles.
Here are some valuable tips from Jim and Mary at Old World Garden Farms.Plant Sacrificial and Repelling Crops : Many successful growers will plant sacrificial plants that the beetles love nearby their cucumber plants.
- Alyssum, Zinnias and Pumpkin vines are all excellent sacrificial crops. Beetles prefer them even more than cucumbers, so they tend to stick to attacking them. It makes them easy to spot and destroy, and gives a fighting chance for your cukes.
- You can also plant repelling crops that beetles dislike such as radishes, oregano (can be invasive – plant in a 5 Gal bucket), and nasturtiums (nasturtiums can bring snails). Plant them right with your cucumbers to help repel the beetles away.
INCOMPATIBLE Plants
Potato, super aromatic herbs like Sage.
Planting for Pleasure!
First decide how you will grow your Cukes! On the ground, trellising or overhead?!
That determines how you layout your garden! Overhead may require separate additional space, or you might install it over your patio but not so tall that you can't reach to harvest! Unique! Trellises will make varying kinds of shade depending on what kind of trellis you use. You might like some shade for summer lettuces. A simple vertical trellis still makes shade, but less if you install it along the direction of the summer sun's path! If you have already planted other plants and don't want to shade them, you might choose smaller varieties of cucumbers that will grow to less heights, have smaller leaves.
Small pickling cucumbers are easy on a vertical trellis. If you are growing heavy slicers, a vertical trellis is still good. If you are growing a LOT of long cukes, you might grow them on an overhead, let them hang for easy harvesting. Cucumbers up on trellises will ripen all the way around while ground growing might leave an unripened yellow area on their down side.
Choose trellis shapes that give you easy picking access and that will give ample space for the variety of cucumber you choose!
Getting your cucumbers off the ground keeps them out of the nibbling insect zone, but it is a little cooler up there and may delay growth a bit. If you are in a cool windy coastal area, you might decide to grow low shrub porous windbreaks to shelter an area, and leave your cukes on the ground. Mulch with only an inch layer of straw to keep them off the ground and the insects happy under the mulch. The thin straw layer allows aeration and some light through to keep the soil warm.
Sun, Soil, Spacing
Full summer sun! Cucumber is not a 'winter' plant, they grow best at 81 F to 101! They will do alright at 60 degrees at night, and above 70 degrees during the day. If you are coastal cool, if possible, find a SHELTERED spot for them so they can be good and warm! In the garden plant them on the sunny side of corn, beans or tomatoes. Look for a light colored wall, west facing, with no chilling wind that whips by. A light, sandy loam soil works well for early production. Cucumbers thrive in well drained, fertile soil and need a pH above 6.0.
Some northern gardeners prepare their cukes, melons, squash, peppers and tomato soil well in advance, in fall for spring! They compost in place – pile on manure, chopped leaves and grass, sprinkle on coffee grounds and kitchen scraps, wood ashes from winter fires, etc. In spring dig a foot square hole, fill with your luscious compost, plant your seed right in that compost! Lasts all season if you live in a short season area, and no compost is wasted where no plant is planted! As long as you get that compost out to just beyond the feeder root area your mature plant will have, it's good.
Incorporate a layer of worm castings at the top of your planting area if you are planting seeds. Castings improve and speed germination, improve water holding capacity to keep your seedlings moist longer!
Spacing depends on which varieties you plant and whether you trellis or not. For trailing cucumbers on the ground, plant 3 to 4 seeds in hills, spacing the hills 3 to 4 feet apart in the row and space rows 5 feet apart. If you plan to trellis your cucumbers, space the hills 2 feet apart in the row and thin to one plant per hill. If you use a vertical trellis, as your plants grow, be prepared to gently weave them up the trellis or tie them in place. Cukes are not like beans or peas that do it by themselves and bend easily.
Hilling or Basins?! If you live in a wet summer rainy area, hilling is great for drainage, though sometimes toward the end of summer, salts accumulate on the top of the soil and water simply runs off. Or the hill flattens from watering, roots are exposed, you need to replenish the soil. Laying on compost mulch covered with a straw mulch will help that. In hot Mediterranean summer dry areas like SoCal, a dripline-wide basin corrals the water right where your plant needs it. Put a stake in the center of the basin so you know where to water. If your soil is infected with wilts or blights, make a hill, put the basin on top, with the bottom of the basin above the regular soil level. This waters your plant, allows drainage and some drying, reducing the fungi. Mulch with only 1″ of straw to allow airflow, but to keep leaves from touching soil. Keeping the leaves from touching the soil is critical because it is the number one way wilts access your plants.
Cucumbers are frost tender. Wait to plant until the soil has warmed up to 65° degrees or above.
Pre sprouting is smart! Soak your seeds in water for 5 to 10 hours, drain. Put them on damp paper towels wrapped loosely in an unsealed plastic bag and put in a warm spot. 70-85 degrees is optimum. Check the bags every day – keep the towels moist. The seeds will sprout in a few days. It saves time and guarantees you will have a plants in every space! You won't waste time waiting for failed seeds in the ground. Seed Soaking/Presprouting Tips Plant your sproutlings very gently.
Selecting Transplants to save money! Not everyone wants to plant from seed! Not everyone wants to spend a ton of bucks on transplants either! Ok, so do it John Kohler style! See this video of him separating out ELEVEN lemon cucumbers from one 4″ container he purchased for $1.79 – those were the days, ha, ha! I didn't believe it, but he did it easy! And I'll bet they all grew! You can use this technique with many plants.
Tag your seedlings and transplants with the date planted, variety name, # of days to maturity. Having your plant date and days to maturity tells you at a glance how well they are doing per how long they have been in the ground. If your seeds don't germinate, you know your seed is compromised or too old. If there are no fruits when expected, are you over fertilizing and your plant is going to leaf and no fruit, or are they slow due to cooler weather than usual? When the season is done, how did that variety do for you? Should you save some seeds? Put a note in your records of what to do better next year, for selecting next year's purchases, how many to plant. Also, jot down where you got that transplant or the seeds.
Successive Planting
If you have poor or fungi infected soil, two plantings may make sense. The first planting may not last long depending on whether you planted a resistant variety or not. A later second planting, when the soil has heated and dried, may be more successful. To help keep the soil drier, use an open mulch like straw, only 1″ is best, for airflow.
Planting smaller shorter fruited varieties is good early on. A month or two later you might plant long varieties that need good heat to make those big babies!
Pollination! Or, Why do my cucumber plants have flowers but no fruit?
Unlike tomatoes that have both male and female parts in every flower, the cucurbits – squash, melons, cucumbers, have male flowers and female flowers. Somehow the pollen must be transferred. And, complete pollination is a must! Without it you may get deformed cucumbers, slow growing cucumbers or no cucumbers at all! With good pollination you can get more and larger cukes!
NMSU says: The female flower cannot produce the pollen needed to cause the fruit to develop and is dependent upon insect (or human) pollinators to transport the pollen from the male flower. The male flowers begin forming [a week or two] before the female flowers form. So, it is possible to have cucumbers blooming, but not producing fruit.
When skies are gray, it's rainy or it is super windy, some pollinators don't fly. Hand Pollination is easy! Daub that Q-tip or mini brush on the male flower's anther (the stem is shorter and has no baby cuke forming under the flower – sometimes they grow in clusters where the females grow singly) then roll it onto the female's stigma at the center of the flower! Or break the male flower off, remove the petals and do it direct! Don't shake it and lose all the pollen before you introduce it to that girl flower! One can do several females.
Use only fresh male flowers. Flowers open in the morning. The females are only receptive that day and pollen is only viable that day. If you are doing a few it's quick. If you have a lot of cukes, it's going to take some time. But if you love cucumbers, it is so worth it! Do squash and melons the same way!
SFGate says: If pollination is a problem each year for your cucumbers, choose parthenocarpic varieties. Parthenocarpic varieties produce only female flowers and do not need pollination to produce fruit. This type of cucumber is also seedless.
Watering/Mulch Compost Fertilizer Sidedressing
Cucumbers have short roots and need consistent water, kept moist, to never dry out. Pick first, water afterwards. Avoid wetting the plants and water in AMs if possible to avoid mildew. Plant mildew resistant varieties like Diva. Apply your baking soda mix to alkalize the leaves. Some say most granular fertilizers leach from the soil rather quickly due to watering. That is why the instructions say you should reapply periodically through the season, even once a week. Time release pellets do better. But adding organic material, compost, to your soil not only adds nutrients, it loosens the soil, attracts worms and other soil building critters and helps your soil retain moisture and nutrients.
Feed your cukes when they first begin to run (form vines and sprawl); again when blossoms set. A big vined short rooted, long fruited variety of cucumber, in a long summer is a heavy feeder, so some gardeners recommend to fertilize once a week! A small fruited, small leaved patio type container cucumber may need little to no feeding.
Since Cucumbers are short rooted, be very careful if you dig in fertilizer or compost. Dig only on one side so as not to break off all the tiny surface feeder roots. Better to add a 1″ layer of compost, some worm castings if you have them, in the planting basin, cover with straw and water well. Foliar feeding mixed teas feeds the whole plant with no harm to the roots at all! Do both the compost and foliar!
Fruits will be aborted during dry spells and very hot weather. Keep your plants watered, moist, regularly, and don't worry if your plant temporarily stops flowering and producing. When the weather cools, you will be back in business!
Common Diseases
Mildew is #1. Plant leaving plenty of space for air circulation. Apply your baking soda mix. Drench under and upper sides of the foliage of young plants to get them off to a great start! Do this the same or next day if transplanting. A super combo is 1 regular Aspirin dissolved, a 1/4 cup nonfat powdered milk, heaping tablespoon of baking soda, a teaspoon liquid dish soap per gallon/watering can. Reapply every 10 days or so, and after significant rains. Not only is prevention so much better than after mildew has set in, but this mix stimulates your plant's growth! IPM on Powdery mildew
The worst diseases, spread by Cucumber Beetles, are the Wilts, Fusarium and Verticillium. Please see Wilts & Cucumber Beetles, Tomatoes & Cukes! for the details, prevention and treatment.
Common Pests
Striped/Spotted Cucumber Beetles are the nemesis of Cucumbers. Squish. Cucumber Beetles get in cucumber, squash and melon blossoms. They aren't picky. They are yellow greenish with black stripes or dots about the size and shape of a Ladybug. They are cute but are the very worst garden pest. They carry bacterial diseases and viruses from plant to plant, such as bacterial wilt and mosaic virus, deadly to cukes. Radish repels them, is a champion plant, a hero of the garden! Plant enough radish for you to eat and to let others just grow, be there permanently or at least until the beetles are done, gone. IPM data
Squash Bugs like your Zucchini and other squash, cucumber and melons. Plant WHITE potatoes among these plants to repel the bugs. You will get two crops instead of just one! IPM info
Whitefly infestations leave a parasitic fungus called black sooty mold, and that attracts aphids/ants and aphids add to the black problem. Hose 'em, several days in a row to get rid of them, being sure to get under the leaves! Sprinkle the ground with cinnamon to repel aphid-tending ants. Remove any yellowing leaves throughout your garden that attract whiteflies. Water a tad less. Remove unhealthy leaves that may lay on the ground and harbor pests or diseases. Thin some leaves away to improve air circulation. IPM on Whiteflies
Bill Finch has written a detailed, educated and humorous account about using summer horticultural oil on whiteflies!It's worth the read.
Most cucumber varieties will start to bloom in about 60 to 65 days after they germinate. They have male and female blooms on the same plant. Only the female bloom produces fruit. Insects are necessary for cross pollination. Grow lots of bee food! If it is necessary to apply insecticides it is best to apply them as late in the afternoon as possible, when bees are less active. Parthenocarpic varieties having all female flowers, don't need bees.
Harvest & Storage
Mexican Gherkins/Mouse Melons, are ripe when they fall to the ground! Lemon cukes are best eaten while still young and pale green. Other Cucumbers mature rapidly and once in production check every other day for ones ready to harvest. No storing on the vine or your plant thinks it's done and stops producing. Cut, clip or carefully twist off while holding the vine. Cukes are old if they are large, puffy, dull and yellow. Use care not to step on vines during harvest.
Pickles are the only real way of storing cukes, and there are the cuke varieties that are specific for that purpose! Probiotic pickling is the healthiest way of doing it.
Cucumbers are another room temp veggie. University of California, Davis, says cukes are sensitive to temperatures below 50°F. They thrive and last longer at room temp. However, cucumbers, eggplant and peppers can be kept in the refrigerator for 1 to 3 days if they are used soon after removal from the refrigerator.
Seed Harvest, SeedSaving, Inbreeding Depression. When, Seed Saving Process, Viability
If you are in a short summer cool climate, don't have a long enough summer to save seed, buying seed may be your only option.
Parthenocarpic means your plant produces without pollination, makes NO seeds. Like with hybrids, saving seeds is not an option. However, there are reports of saving seeds from parthenocarpic plants! Some flowers do get pollinated. Soak the seed like usual, keep only the sinkers that look the most like your original seed! You might not get many, but probably enough!
If you have non parthenocarpic varieties and want to save cucumber seed, plant only one variety! They cross breed like crazy! Experienced home seed savers can grow more than one variety at a time in a single garden by using hand pollinating techniques. If you don't hand pollinate, separate two different cucumber varieties by at least 1/2 mile to ensure purity. Inbreeding Depression, reduced vigor due to breeding related plants, is not usually noticeable in cucumbers. Seeds should be saved from at least 6 cucumbers on 6 different plants.
You may ask what if I plant non and Parthenocarpic varieties together? Parthenocarpic cucumbers grow fruits without pollination, developed for commercial greenhouse production – no bees. As a home gardener, if pollinated they will have seeds. If you don't mind seeds, then interplanting is not a problem. But these seeds will be hybrids. Experimenting can be fun, or disappointing if you want what you had before.
Saving the seeds of Cukes, Eggplant, Melon, Pepper, Squash, Tomatoes, and Zukes is super easy.
Leave the best or last of your cukes to get old on the vine to reap all they can from the Mother plant. Leave them at least 5 weeks after the eating stage, until they have turned a golden color. Now is the time we want those old large, puffy, dull and yellow ones! In northern areas the first, light frost of the season will blacken vines and make cucumbers easier to find. Undamaged fruits can be stored in cool, dry place for several weeks to finish ripening.
Slice your cucumbers lengthwise and scrape seeds out with spoon. Put them in warm water no more than two days. Scrape any scum off. Let the contents settle and begin pouring out the water along with pieces of pulp and immature seeds floating on top. Viable seeds, sinkers, are heavier and settle to the bottom of the jar. Repeat this process until water being poured out is almost clear and clean seeds line the bottom of the container. Pour these clean seeds into a strainer that has holes smaller than the seeds. Let the excess water drip out and invert the strainer onto paper towel or piece of newspaper. Allow the seeds to dry completely (usually a day or two). Break up the clumps into individual seeds, label with date and variety, store in a packet or plastic bag. Check them in a week or two to be sure there is no mold or any insect infestations.
The drier the seeds, the longer they will store ~ about 5 years for cucumbers, 2 – 10 maybe.
Cucumbers are easy to eat!
Some cucumbers simply never make it home from the garden. Next best fresh is in a tasty greens salad!
Eat cukes and yogurt! Raita, an Indian dish, is pretty and a very nice cooling summer dish. It can also be used as a sauce over falafels, as a veggie dip or salad dressing! Chicken, lettuce & cucumber slice sands!
Make a pale green egg salad with fresh minced basil, green onions, and crunchy cucumbers. Tuck it into pita pockets. Mmm…..
In Asia cucumbers are often stir-fried and are quite tasty. Give it a try! Toss cold noodles with sauce, cucumber, and scallion or coriander. Sprinkle noodles with sesame seeds.
How about a delicious Pineapple Cucumber Smoothie?! Add blueberries for blue, Strawberries for pink! Or do Cucumber, Apple & MInt! With Kale. Watermelon! Do a flavor a day – just add Cucumber!
- Add cucumber, pineapple, frozen banana, light coconut milk, water, lime zest, lime juice, greens, and ice cubes to a blender and blend on high until creamy and smooth, scraping down sides as needed.
- For a thicker smoothie, add more ice. For a thinner smoothie, add more liquid of choice. …
Pickles are prime! Do probiotics for the very best nutrition! Add carrot sticks, hot peppers, garlic, dill, whatever tickles your tastebuds!
FYI the inside of a cucumber can be up to twenty degrees cooler than the outside temperature! This is where the saying cool as a cucumber came from.
Stay cool!
Updated at various times…
The Green Bean Connection newsletter started as correspondence for the Santa Barbara CA USA, Pilgrim Terrace Community Garden, then became this blog too! All three of Santa Barbara city community gardens are very coastal. During late spring/summer we are in a fog belt/marine layer area most years, locally referred to as the May grays, June glooms and August fogusts. Keep that in mind compared to the microclimate niche where your veggie garden is.
Love your Mother! Plant bird & bee food! Think grey water! Grow organic! Bless you for being such a wonderful Earth Steward!


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(The Root) — As Wink, the excitable single father in the lauded new film Beasts of the Southern Wild, Dwight Henry, 42, plays a man quite literally living on the edge. Residing in a community of outliers beyond the levees of New Orleans on the fictional island known as the Bathtub, his character forages for his own food and struggles with a mysterious illness. He also raises his feisty young daughter, named Hushpuppy (played by the astonishingly charismatic newcomer Quvenzhané Wallis), with healthy doses of tough love as he prepares her for life's hard truths.
Henry's high-energy performance in the movie, which explores their father-daughter relationship as Hurricane Katrina rips through the region, is so bursting with passion that you'd think he was a veteran of the big screen. However, the role is Henry's first acting job. A baker by trade (he owns the Buttermilk Drop Bakery and Café in the city's 9th Ward), Henry answered a casting call on a whim and got the part.
The Root caught up with the "Nawlins" native in New York's Crosby Hotel, and he explained how he connected with his child co-star and what it's like to start his Hollywood career in a film about the resilient nature of his hometown people.
The Root: Director Benh Zeitlin is a white New Yorker who moved to New Orleans in 2006. Did it surprise you how well he was able to capture parts of the black experience in New Orleans?
Dwight Henry: No, because being [in] that region and understanding their culture down there, he captured the essence of people. These people that live down there, ya know, they don't see color — black, white — because you have Native American, French, African Americans, you have so many. It's like a whole gumbo.
[In the film,] these people have so much culture and love for each other under the worst circumstances in the world — a dire storm is coming, flooding, hurricane, apocalyptic creatures coming to hurt everybody … they still show resiliency and strength [in refusing] to leave. I'm from New Orleans, and I got that same strength. We have hurricane parties … because we are defiant. We are going to show this storm that we not gonna change our life.
TR: Did you ever have aspirations to be an actor?
DH: Never, but these [film producer] cats seen things in me that I didn't see in myself. Nazzy (Quvenzhané) was 5 or 6 years old when blessed with this opportunity [to be cast], like she hit the lottery. I hope both of us can have an impact on some younger children … on some of the older people that's depressed in my community, who don't have hope at all, that are like, "Damn, Mr. Henry, look, he in his 40s and he in the newspaper."
Make a long story short, I actually turned them down three times for this part. I wanted to do it, but I had just opened up my new bakery, so I wouldn't sacrifice something that I'm building to pass on to my children. I can't pass an acting career down to them. But [the filmmakers] wanted me so badly. I worked things out with my partners.
TR: Was it difficult to relate to such a young girl?
DH: I have five kids [ages 9 and under]. It was easy for me to relate to her because [of] some of the same things that I do with my 7-year-old daughter … we have a wonderful relationship. I brought the same qualities and same interactions to the screen with Nazzy. Ultimately she had the say-so for who was going to play her father because she was 6 years old. She has to feel comfortable with who she's working with.
TR: What did you do to make Quvenzhané feel at ease?
DH: I had to use strategy. So I did some of the same things that I do with my daughter. When she's mad at me for whatever reason she's mad at me, I go to Toys R Us and get two bags of toys — that's a rap, she's good. What I did when they first told me [I got the part], I packed up all kinds of pastries in a box from the bakery and everything — like four big boxes — and when they brought me in to meet her, I looked at her, I handed her the boxes, put a big ol' smile on my face and laughed. She looked at me, looked in that box and put that big ol' smile on her face, and I knew I had her then.
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Revision as of 10:33, 11 January 2019
Working Group Overview
Leadership Team
|Mary Nilsson
|Industry Co-lead and Steering Committee Liaison
|nilsson_mary_e (at) lilly.com
|Hanming Tu
|Industry Co-lead and Steering Committee Liaison
|htu (at) frontagelab.com
Current Projects
|Analysis and Display White papers (Mary Nilsson)
|This project includes the development of white papers that provide recommended Tables, Figures, and Listings for clinical trial study reports and submission documents. The intent is to begin the process of developing industry standards with respect to analysis and reporting for measurements that are common across clinical trials and across therapeutic areas. Script developers could then create scripts consistent with the recommendations for all to use, improving efficiency and safety signal detection.
|Code Sharing (Repository) (Hanming Tu)
|Establish and maintain a collaboration platform for leveraging crowd-sourcing to improve the content and implementation of analyses for medical research and leading to better data interpretations and increased efficiency in the clinical drug development and review processes.
|Communication, Promotion and Education (Jared Slain and Wendy Dobson)
|The success of working group "Standard Analyses and Code Sharing" relies on the acceptance, input, feedback and further development from/by the user community. A main priority will be to develop a Communication Plan that conceptualizes efficient ways to communicate working group progress and results, e.g. white papers, and the call for scripts. It will define target groups, timing, communication channels, and the presentation.
|Best Practices for Quality Control and Validation (Maria Dalton and Jane Marrer)
|Quality and accuracy is essential in the health and life sciences industries. Patients and regulators must be able to trust analyses of clinical data. This paper will provide an in-depth review of best practices for robust quality control. The scope of the paper will be quality control of analysis programming of clinical data in health and life sciences organisations. It is applicable to the organisations who produce analyses of clinical data, including Contract Research Organisations. The paper will not discuss oversight of outsourced programming
|GPP in Macro Development (Ninan Luke)
|Macros provide an effective way to automate and reuse code in a standard and consistent manner across SAS programs. This ability to reuse code means that the use of GPP is particularly important in macro code and we think that there is a need to develop a consensus and document good programming prairies specifically for macro programming.
|Test Data Factory (Peter Schaefer)
|Several CS Projects develop and specify medical research methods, features, or processes, and some even create software components or subsystems for common tasks in drug development. As part of these efforts, a variety of SDTM or ADaM test datasets are required. The typical fallback position of project teams is to use data from the CDISC pilot project and/or anonymized study data that are provided by project team members. The Test Data Factory project aims at providing test data formatted in SDTM and ADaM that support a more systematic and comprehensive testing of these concepts and scripts.
|Key Links
|Previously published deliverables & News
Small tasks that Working Group members can help with
- CPE project - Help with entering conferences and due dates for abstract submissions
- CPE project - After a presentation is given, add the ppt and pdf versions to the wiki
Working Group Meeting Minutes
- Starting in 2019, meeting minutes are kept in Teamworks instead of the wiki
Conference Records
Closed Projects
- P04: Legal ownership and issues in open source repository (Sally Cassells)
- Task completed, creating a summary is planned
- P05: Create templates and metadata for documenting scripts and coding practices (Jean-Marc Ferran and Eric Sun)
- Closed, remaining tasks are folded into RGI project.
- P06: Refine process for creating and editing scripts in Google Code (Kevin Kane)
- Closed, any remaining tasks moved to Project 03
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Development_of_Standard_Scripts_for_Analysis_and_Programming - This contains the legacy working group information.
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Shares sold off to end financial year
Last minute share sales to lock in the profits of a strong financial year have caused the market to fall.
The year's best performing stocks - banks, Telstra and healthcare providers - were the hardest hit by profit taking.
"Double digit gains for share prices over the financial year have investors locking in gains and realising profits in anticipation of tax bills," CMC Markets chief strategist Michael McCarthy said.
Electronics retailer Dick Smith was one of the few stocks to rise, after reporting strong sales growth in the final three months of the financial year.
It gained three cents, or 1.55 per cent, to $1.96.
Among the banks, Commonwealth Bank dropped 59 cents to $80.88, Westpac shed 29 cents to $33.88, ANZ lost 26 cents to $33.34 and National Australia Bank was 25 cents weaker at $32.78.
Telstra shed five cents to $5.21 while in the health sector Ramsay dropped 80 cents to $45.50 and CSL was 39 cents lower at $66.55.
Fortescue Metals was another big loser, shedding 20 cents to $4.35.
Rio Tinto dropped 75 cents to $59.31 and BHP Billiton lost 52 cents to $35.90.
* At the close on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 49.4 points, or 0.91 per cent, at 5,395.7.
* The broader All Ordinaries index was down 47.1 points, or 0.87 per cent, at 5,382.
* The September share price index futures contract was 62 points lower at 5,354, with 39,247 contracts traded.
* The price of gold in Sydney was $US1,313.82 per fine ounce, down $US6.38 on Friday's price of $US1,320.20.
* National turnover was 2.08 billion securities worth $4.3 billion.


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Hey. Sorry it took me so long to reply but I don't come here very often, I'm afraid. You asked for a credit to File:Intrepid class concept art.jpg. Unfortunately, I can't help you out. I don't know the artist, nor, in fact, where I found the image in the first place. When I get home this weekend, I'll try and remember to have a look through some reference works I got. Hopefully, the image is in one of them, with the proper credits. Ottens 14:11, January 25, 2010 (UTC)


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Mayor Vincent Gray said Tuesday that he had proposed relocating the FBI to Poplar Point, a 110-acre site in southeast Washington that is near several highways, bike paths and Metro stations.
The move comes as the General Services Administration evaluates potential new locations for the FBI, which has been located inside the J. Edgar Hoover Building on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington since the mid-1970s. Communities in Maryland and Virginia are also competing for the right to host the headquarters.
D.C. officials say they'd like the chance to redevelop the existing J. Edgar Hoover Building and make it part of "the downtown core."
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* Couple says contraceptives provision violates their faith
* Court found "substantial burden" on religious exercise
By Jonathan Stempel
Dec 29 (Reuters) - A divided federal appeals court has temporarily barred the U.S. government from requiring an Illinois company to obtain insurance coverage for contraceptives, as mandated under the 2010 healthcare overhaul, after the owners objected on religious grounds.
More than 40 lawsuits are challenging a requirement in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that requires most for-profit companies to offer workers insurance coverage for contraceptive drugs and devices and other birth control methods.
Friday's 2-1 order by a panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago in favor of Cyril and Jane Korte was the second by a federal appeals court to temporarily halt enforcement against people who said it violated their faith, said Edward White, a lawyer for the Roman Catholic couple.
The 7th Circuit suggested that the couple's legal challenge might eventually prevail.
Its order came two days after U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declined to block the provision's enforcement against companies controlled by the family of Oklahoma City billionaire David Green.
The U.S. Department of Justice, which had defended the contraceptives provision, did not immediately respond on Saturday to a request for comment.
The Kortes, who own the construction firm Korte & Luitjohan Contractors, had sought to drop a health insurance plan for 20 non-unionized workers that included coverage for contraception, and substitute a different plan consistent with their faith.
But the Obama administration's healthcare law did not allow the change, and the Kortes said that violated the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or RFRA.
In issuing an injunction, the 7th Circuit majority said the Kortes had established a reasonable likelihood of success on the merits of their RFRA claim, and that the government had not yet justified the apparent "substantial burden" on their religious exercise.
The court also said the couple had established irreparable harm, because absent an injunction they would have to choose between maintaining insurance coverage they considered inappropriate or facing substantial financial penalties.
"Business owners who are objecting to the mandate are not objecting to people using contraceptives, but that they have to arrange for and pay for it," White, a lawyer with the American Center for Law and Justice, said in a phone interview. "The federal government shouldn't tell business owners they have to contract to buy what they see as immoral services and goods."
Judges Joel Flaum and Diane Sykes comprised the 7th Circuit majority.
Judge Ilana Rovner dissented. She said the Kortes were "multiple steps" removed from the contraceptives services because it was their company paying for the coverage, and because it would be a worker, her doctor and the insurer involved in the decisions about the services and their funding.
The Kortes' case is expected to continue in the 7th Circuit.
Neither the 7th Circuit nor Sotomayor ruled on the merits of their respective cases. The legal standard for obtaining an injunction from the Supreme Court is much higher.
The case is Korte et al v. Sebelius, 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 12-3841. (Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Peter Cooney)


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Jenn Diederich of Riverton, Utah, sent her dog, Ted, for surgery to repair a torn ligament in a right rear leg, only to find that the veterinarian had operated on the left leg instead.
And Stefani Olsen of Silver Spring, Md., returned from a weekend business trip to discover that the clinic where she'd boarded her elderly diabetic cat, Toonces, had overdosed him with 10 times the amount of insulin he needed, leaving the animal blind, wracked with seizures and suffering from severe brain damage that lasted until his death.
"It goes beyond heartbreak," said Olsen, a 45-year-old health information technician who'd had the 15-year-old cat since he was a kitten.
If any of these mistakes had occurred in human patients, they'd be classified as medical errors worthy of investigation, public reporting and professional discipline, including dismissal.
Wrong-site surgery and medication overdoses, for instance, are among the so-called "never events" regarded as inexcusable in a human health care setting.
But because the errors occurred in animals, owners and advocates say they were ignored, minimized or outright denied by a system that devalues the bond between pets and their owners and fails to hold veterinarians sufficiently accountable when they make mistakes.
'Woefully inadequate'
"When someone's companion animal is injured by a veterinarian, their choices are between slim and none," said Joyce Tischler, founder and general counselor for the Animal Legal Defense Fund, a Cotati, Calif., group that fields several calls a month about pet medical errors.
"Action against veterinarians is woefully inadequate," she added.
Owners of injured animals say they're stunned to discover state veterinary boards that dismiss up to 80 percent of the complaints filed against their members, and a legal system that regards pets as mere property, with no way to recover damages for emotional loss.
Laws vary, but in most state courts animals are worth their market value, plus perhaps any economic value they generate for their owners, Tischler said. That could be a considerable amount of money for a high-value show dog or a racehorse, for instance, but for most household pets, it's not.
"If you have a 10-year-old mixed-breed dog, the value of that dog is generally considered to be under $100," Tischler said. "It's a sad situation, it's an unfair situation for people who care about their animals and are quite shocked to find when their animal is killed or injured they cannot sue."
But industry advocates and vets themselves say that such rhetoric overstates the problem. They contend that mistakes occur only in a tiny fraction of the nearly 190 million for veterinary visits for dogs, cats, birds and horses each year, and that there is adequate monitoring and discipline when they do happen.
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"I guess I don't agree that there is a lot of malpractice out there," said Adrian Hochstadt, assistant director of state legislative and regulatory affairs for the American Veterinary Medical Association, which represents about 80,000 vets.
"If there are negligent doctors — and there are probably a few in every system — if it's a big problem, it would have been addressed by legislation," he added.
No tracking of vet errors
It's difficult to know how often medical errors occur in pets. The AVMA collects no statistics on veterinary malpractice suits, Hochstadt said, and the group's associated Professional Liability Insurance Trust, or PLIT, which offers malpractice insurance for vets, refused to release numbers or outcomes of such cases.
One small study of veterinary errors, a 2004 paper published in the journal Veterinary Record, found that 78 percent of recent veterinary graduates surveyed in Scotland and England admitted making a mistake that could have endangered an animal. It's not clear whether those results can be extrapolated to the larger profession, however.
In the absence of better data, most industry experts look to human medicine, where medical errors kill as many as 98,000 people a year, and likely more, according to a decade-old Institute of Medicine report widely regarded as a baseline.
"There's no reason to think that it's so different than what occurs in humans," said Kathleen Bonvicini, chief executive of the Institute for Healthcare Communication Inc., a New Haven, Conn., nonprofit that had to add sessions on veterinary errors several years ago to address a growing demand.
Complaints on the rise
Still, the number of complaints against veterinarians seems to be going up, rising by about 14 percent between 2005 and 2007 according to a survey by DVM Newsmagazine, which monitors the industry.
A check of several states showed that many dismiss a large proportion of their complaints. In Texas, there were 469 new complaints in 2008, with 172 carried from previous years. Records show that more than 40 percent, 263 complaints, were dismissed without action.
In Alabama, 30 of 50 new complaints filed in 2008 were dismissed, or about 60 percent. And in Nevada, 65 of 79 new complaints that year were dismissed, or 82 percent.
But using numbers of complaints to gauge the quality of veterinary care can be misleading, noted Thomas Mickey, the executive director of the North Carolina Veterinary Medical Board. Some customers use complaints as a way to get out of paying what they regard as high vet bills.
"They have to justify a reason for not paying that bill," he said.
The AVMA stands by the state discipline system, Hochstadt said. At the same time, the group has staunchly opposed efforts to allow courts to impose non-economic damages for animals, arguing that the move would drive up costs, push vets out of the profession and create many of the problems found in the medical malpractice realm for humans.
"Our position is that the current legal structure is working well," Hochstadt said.
That sentiment outrages some pet owners, prompting them to take their plight to the Internet. Greg Munson, 44, a Mesquite, Texas, businessman created the Web site www.vetsfromhell.net after the 2005 death of his beloved 8-year-old Shih Tzu, Stempy, from an alleged veterinary error after surgery for a bladder stone.
Munson's site, which features flaming letters and "story after story of EVIL Vets from HELL," was designed to gain attention — and prompt action, Munson said.
"Vets in this country literally get away with murder," Munson said. "Even when a vet board does hold a vet accountable, it's nothing more than a slap on the wrist."
Devastating mistakes
When mistakes occur, they've devastating to the animals — and to their owners.
Jared Genser, the 37-year-old Washington, D.C., lawyer, said he and his wife, Lisa, 32, a social worker, suffered "extreme distress" when a pathologist's report from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine said their 5-year-old Greyhound, Finnegan, had osteosarcoma, an aggressive and deadly bone cancer.
"We cried for 24 hours," he said. "They said we should probably consider putting him down to spare him the pain."
Reluctantly, the pair scheduled the euthanasia. The day before the appointment, however, they got a second opinion from a Greyhound expert at Ohio State University, who ruled out cancer and said the dog was recovering from an injury. Three years later, Finnegan remains happy and healthy.
"It was either a spontaneous recovery or the pathologists at U Penn were wrong," Genser said.
Jenn Diederich's dog, Ted, a 7-year-old female Corgi-Blue Heeler mix, required four surgeries to repair the damage caused when Utah veterinarian Eric Bonder mistakenly operated on the wrong leg — and then botched that operation as well when a bone plate fractured during surgery.
"Her left leg, the one that had nothing wrong with it, had to have three surgeries because he did such a bad job on it," said Diederich, 35, who works in law enforcement. "No dog should have to go through that."
Stenfani Olsen said Toonces, her diabetic cat, spent the last two years of his life grappling with severe brain damage, while she spent $16,000 caring for him. It turned out that the vet who cared for Toonces, Marc S. Katz, of Silver Spring, Md., had allowed his adult son, who was not licensed as a veterinary technician, to administer insulin to the animal without supervision, records show.
The penalty levied by the Maryland State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners against Katz was a $250 fine and 30-day suspension of his license, which was stayed. He was placed on six months probation, records showed. Katz did not return calls and e-mails from msnbc.com.
"What would happen to a human medical doctor if that happened?" Olsen said. "What I'm saying is a $250 fine and a stayed suspension is completely inadequate as a deterrent."
'How do you sleep at night?'
For many owners, that's the worst part: They're upset that the mistake occurred, but they're outraged when no one seems to take it seriously.
When Diederich, who was upset, confronted the vet, Bonder, about the mistaken surgery, she said he told her: "By law, your dog is worth only $100 anyway."
Bonder, 45, of Salt Lake City, acknowledged that he did operate on the wrong leg, and that that operation went bad, too.
"I feel awful about it," said Bonder, who explained that the original mistake occurred when a technician shaved the wrong leg. "Admittedly, I should have caught the error."
But he said he never told Diederich that her dog was worth just $100: "I did not say it and I would not say it."
He added that every vet who makes a mistake feels nearly as bad as the owners do.
"It's more gut-wrenching than it is anything else," Bonder said. "Once I realized it occurred, it's 'Oh my gosh, what happened?' and then you go to 'What do you do about this?'"
Diederich filed a complaint about Bonder with the Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing last summer, but a spokeswoman said no action had been taken. Records show Bonder's veterinary license had been placed on probation for two years in 2002 after he "acted unprofessionally" while treating an injured cat. The move included stipulations that he submit to a psychological exam and retake the ethics portion of the state veterinary exam.
Bonder said he couldn't comment on the details of the case, except to say it didn't involve a medical issue.
In Genser's case, the head pathologist at the U Penn vet school wouldn't answer calls from the Greyhound's owner about the dog's incorrect cancer diagnosis. A letter to the dean of the school, Joan C. Hendricks, elicited a polite, but vague response, despite Genser's demands for clear action to rectify the problem. Hendricks did not respond to calls and e-mails from msnbc.com
"I don't expect perfection in my vets," said Genser, adding that he did expect medical professionals to communicate with owners and to learn from their mistakes.
A culture change
Bonvicini, the health communications expert, said veterinary attention to medical mistakes probably lags human medicine by several years. In human care, a "mistakes happen" attitude has been replaced with concerted efforts to reduce errors. From Medicare penalties for hospital-acquired conditions to surgical checklists aimed at reminding doctors to follow protocols, the entire system has veered toward a new accountability.
"We're talking about a culture change," said Bonvicini, who teaches seminars on human medical errors as well. The PLIT, the liability insurance agency, has recently begun sponsoring the sessions.
Veterinarians are starting to feel the same pressures, said Mickey, the North Carolina vet board director.
"I think there's a greater understanding in the profession that a mistake could happen to anybody," he said. "We've got to be more careful. We've got to do a better job. I think the whole profession is on a gradual uphill."
The change can't come soon enough for pet owners, said Tischler, of the Animal Legal Defense Fund. In a nation where 63 percent of people own pets and many regard them as members of the family, according to the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association, more animal lovers are paying attention to medical errors — and hoping to stop them.
It'll take more aggressive enforcement by vet boards and, perhaps, a change in the way animals are regarded under the law, she said. Until then, pet owners are on their own.
"I never met a person who wanted money," Tischler said. "Every single one of them has said, 'I just don't want this to happen to anyone else's animal.'"
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In one of my previous posts at the start of the summer season here in the Philippines, I wrote about the different SIGNS OR OMENS OF A BAD TRAVEL LUCK and I also shared some FENG SHUI TIPS FOR A SAFE TRAVEL.
However, when we are on a vacation or on a leisure trip abroad it's very easy for us to get excited and lose our Feng Shui consciousness. The different wonderful site and/or historical or cultural places sometimes cause us to do some Feng Shui blunders.
Several years back, I went on a trip to mainland China with a couple of friends, who happens to be married to each other. We mainly stayed in Beijing, and were easily lost in the wonderful cultural sites the place has to offer us. Part of our itinerary is a trip to the Great Wall of China and the famous Ming Tombs.
At the Ming Tombs we went down and entered some of the actual tombs and were mesmerize with the rich historical story behind the tombs, not to mention the beauty of the site.
Everything in that trip went really well, and we soon came back home and went back to our normal routine. However, the normal routine proved to be abnormal in the sense, we started having different challenges. My problem is about my work and career. I lost some money because somebody stole it from me. I've shared about this in one of my first posts.
My friends, who are married to each other, had bigger misfortune. A few months after we arrived, my guy friend lost his job, his wife, my girl friend, got pregnant which should be a joyful event but she had a miscarriage on her 3rd month of pregnancy. But more than that they also both went through several years of bad luck even if their Bazi, which was analyzed by a Feng Shui expert, indicated that both of them are going through a 5 year cycle of good luck.
It is only when I studied Feng Shui that I realized that the trip to the Ming Tombs could have caused the misfortune that befell us.
Another proof that visiting a Yin dominant place can be bad for your luck happened to a former officemate. A and her whole family went to Egypt. As expected they went to visit some pyramid where the whole family went inside the pyramid and different chambers, which as everyone knows are the tombs.
Maybe the effect with them is much more magnified because the whole family went inside and was affected by the Yin energy of the pyramid. Right after that trip, A's mom had cancer, the father's business started going bad and A herself started doing poorly in her work. Furthermore, A's older brother started using drugs also.
I was no longer working with A when I found out about this, but she decided to 'consult' me because she knows of my Feng Shui background. She shared with me that out of desperation with all the bad luck that was happening to their family they consulted a psychic. This psychic told them that the whole family attracted a bad luck because they trespassed into a 'spirit' world. According to A the psychic didn't know that they went to Egypt and entered the pyramid. A was not actually sure whether the psychic was referring to the pyramid because it happened more than a couple of years ago.
When she shared with me the story, I knew right away that the psychic was right and that A was also right in thinking that it was caused by their trip to Egypt.
If you've read my previous posts, you'd know that living spaces like malls, houses, and offices are Yang dominant places. On the other hand, cemeteries or even morgues are Yin dominant places. We must treat Yin dominant places with 'respect' and should not simply go there out of fun. There must be a purpose before we are really 'allowed' to go to a Yin dominant place and even then we should take a lot of precaution because going into a Yin dominant place may create some bad luck to the person who went inside the Yin dominant place. The effect may not be immediate, and sometimes if you wear some Feng Shui/Buddhist/Taoist amulets you won't feel the effect at all, but it's always better not to tempt fate.


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As a child, I was fixated on mirrors. Time and time again, my parents would catch me in some elaborate, solo musical production performed for an audience of one on the back of my bedroom door. Not only was mirror gazing a solitary indulgence, it was also a public compulsion. I remember being mocked by my Hebrew school classmates when they busted me transfixed by my own reflection in the long windows of the temple gift shop like a Jewish mini-Narcissus.
Until recently, when confronted with memories of my embarrassing pastime, I've always reached the obvious conclusion: I was hopelessly vain. Worse yet, I was hardly physically exceptional enough to justify such fascination. So I wasn't just vain, but delusional to boot.
But mirrors are more than just a place to check your makeup or your air guitar technique. In myths and fairy tales, mirrors are often a mystical thing -- half of this world and half of another. Mirrors play an integral role in Snow White, The Snow Queen, Beauty and the Beast, Through the Looking Glass and the myth of Narcissus, among others. Perseus kills Medusa by using a mirror. Mirrors can provide portents of future events, can hold malevolent spells and can even be a portal to other worlds.
Lately, I've begun to see my fascination with mirrors as the result of an impulse more fundamental than vanity. Mermaids traditionally carry mirrors as a symbol of their duality. As an adopted child, I, too, lived in the borderlands between two worlds. I didn't grow up physically resembling my family and didn't see much of a correspondence, physical or otherwise, between myself and the disturbingly homogenous population of the conservative town in which we lived. I secretly harbored suspicions that I had been dropped into northern New Jersey by sadistic aliens. Or perhaps I had been abandoned by a princess who couldn't raise me because of an evil spell -- the very sort of princess who might have a magic mirror.
We all live on a shifting frontier between truth and fiction. Memories are a collaboration between past and present. The events of our lives are shaped by the dreams, fantasies and beliefs that circle them and vice versa. For adopted children, this hazy boundary between life and narrative takes on an added dimension of urgency, because in some ways we are forced to self-invent from the gate. The inability to easily concretize an identity can lead to feeling disconnected. It can drive you to stare at your own face for too long, to wonder who exactly you are and where you came from. But it can also awaken the narrative possibilities within you. The loss created by adoption leaves a gap, a void. If you are a certain kind of person, you learn to fill that void with story.
My birth mother recently came to visit, graciously agreeing to participate in a series of oral histories I'm recording. I had met her briefly once before, but hadn't seen her in nearly fifteen years. I picked her up curbside at the airport and as I hopped out of my car to hug her, the late afternoon sun glanced off her eyes and the resemblance struck me nearly breathless for a moment. Her eyes were the same shape and unusual muddy green color as my own. A bit lighter, maybe. A bit more careworn, certainly. But still, the similarity startled me. It occurred to me that this sense of recognition is what most people experience every day of their life. As a result, perhaps they don't feel compelled to look quite as hard in the mirror.
This search for reflections in the world around us is an essential impulse. It's an impulse that isn't only answered by our families, but by music, art, books, lovers, friends -- and by stories.
In my adult life, I don't look in the mirror as much as I used to. What the mirror never gave me, I found in narrative. My hunger for connection inspired me to tell stories. I am grateful for it every night as I lie down with my own son, who is also adopted, and spin him tales in which he is a warrior, a prince, a hero. For now, he can take any one of these reflections and choose for himself a truth. And one day, I hope he will tell me a story about who he is, and it will be far better and truer than any story I could invent for him.


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Education and Gender Series (2005)
Oxfam Programme Insights
Author/Publisher: Oxfam GB
Language: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French
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They aim to contribute to the development of gender equality in education programmes, and contribute especially to Oxfam's programmes, and our advocacy for the achievement of the education Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) at international, national, and local levels.
1. Beyond Access for Girls and Boys: how to achieve good-quality, gender-equitable education [pdf]
This introductory paper frames the issues and challenges to be faced in achieving gender equality and quality Education For All (EFA). The issues which include not only ensuring access to education for girls and women, but the completion of a good quality education for both boys and girls so that they can use their education to have a positive effect on their futures are taken up in more detail in subsequent papers.
2. Gender Equality in Schools [pdf]
This paper discusses the content and delivery of education and how it can reflect and reproduce gender inequalities. Girls and boys learning and interaction with each other, and the teacher, are influenced by ways of teaching, the content of the curriculum, and relations within the classroom. The paper considers these aspects of education provision curriculum, teaching and learning, and the dynamics of the classroom and school. It recommends changes needed to ensure that education provision will promote gender equality.
3. Gender Equality and Adult Basic Education [pdf]
This paper highlights the fact that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) do not directly address the issue of adult basic education and literacy, in spite of these being essential for achieving the Millennium targets. It explores the potential of adult basic education with gender equality to be transformatory for individuals, and for groups working to address key issues, such as gender-based violence, and HIV/AIDS. The role of governments and other key agencies in relation to gender equality and adult basic education is also explored. The paper concludes with a discussion of how to develop longer-term approaches to gender equality, adult basic education, and literacy.
4. Beyond the Mainstream: education for nomadic and pastoralist girls and boys [pdf]
This paper illustrates the challenges involved in providing good-quality gender-equitable education for children who are beyond the reach of mainstream, formal education. It focuses on children of nomadic and pastoralist households, identifying specific issues in providing schooling for them, and drawing on lessons from approaches and initiatives by various agencies (government and non-government). The paper explores specific forms of discrimination that nomadic and pastoralist girls experience in relation to education, and highlights the need for deeper gender analysis in order to inform policy making.
5. Making it Happen: political will for gender equality in education [pdf]
Why do some countries succeed in promoting gender parity and equality in education while others do not? The answer often given is political will. All too often, however, no further explanation is offered. There has been little effort to understand why governments are unwilling or unable to change their policies and priorities to achieve equal access to education for girls and boys, as expressed in the third Millennium Development Goal. This paper considers the concept of political will and explores the role that it plays in improving gender parity and equality in education.
6. Developing Capacity to Achieve Gender Equality in Education [pdf]
Failure to achieve gender equality in education is often blamed on weak capacity. This paper illustrates the ways in which individual, organisational, and institutional capacity all play important roles in producing positive results for girls. It is essential to recognise that these different forms of capacity are related, in order to prevent the disappearance of policies and strategies produced with the aim of achieving gender equality in education.
7. Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Education [pdf]
In the mid-1980s, the Australian government embarked on the first initiative to analyse government budgets from a gender perspective. In 1995, South Africa and the Philippines became the second and third countries to attempt gender-responsive budget exercises. By 2003, there had been similar initiatives in more than sixty countries, spanning every continent.This paper uses the gender-responsive budgeting approach to explain how governments and donors can promote gender equality in education through their decisions on financing.
8. Girls Education in Africa [pdf]
Sub-Saharan Africa has some huge problems to resolve if it is to achieve gender equality in education, and fulfil the Millennium Development Goals related to education and gender. Conversely, the region also has some of the most innovative and enterprising examples of initiatives that promote gender equality in education. This paper focuses on sub-Saharan Africa and considers some of the most significant obstacles that African girls face in achieving the education that is their right. The paper then reviews the most significant initiatives those that are gender-neutral and those that have a specific focus on gender equality that have enabled African countries to overcome these obstacles.
9. Girls' Education in South Asian [pdf]
Because of deep-rooted gender inequalities, and because of the large population of South Asia, the region has the highest number of out-of-school girls in the world. This paper outlines some of the issues confronting practitioners, policy makers, and researchers in girls education in South Asia, and explores what they can do to move towards high-quality and gender-equitable education for all.


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Impressive Carlo, very nice collection. I would like to see all that in person. Your collection is so extensive, with all the vintage and POP.I hope one day when I grow up I can have a collection like that too. Even have a black face Grizzlor, MAN!! And those Scareglows. I'm green with envy dude, congrats, very nice..... Yep, very nice indeed.
How complete is your 200x series collection? I never really notice you post all that much in the new MOTU threads, or maybe I just miss them.


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It's time to stop worrying about dying in a plane crash! Sure, the inconvenience and unpleasantness of flying may sometimes make you wish you were dead, but, according to new statistics, air travel is becoming increasingly less likely to actually kill you.
Paul Hayes, director of safety for an aviation consulting company called Ascend, says 2011 was a very good year for air travel: "The number of passengers killed was down considerably." So what exactly are one's chances of falling from the sky these days?
On a global basis, there have been 401 fatalities on commercial and charter aircraft so far this year, down from 726 in 2010. With the world's airlines carrying almost 2.9 billion passengers this year, that works out to one fatality for every 7.1 million passengers flown, the lowest rate since the company began tracking the data in 1990.
One in 7.1 million sounds like pretty good odds! And, according to a former pilot Steve Cowell, it's only going to get better in the future:
Those airplanes are going to improve people's experience as passengers and consequently improve the safety of the system as a whole.
Could it be that at some point in the not-too-distant future we're going to be able to fly without fear of death, without fear of having to spend 17 hours stuck in the Atlanta airport, and without fear of catching some kind of Contagion-y disease? Fingers crossed! (And legs too, since there's not enough room between the seats to have them uncrossed.)
Air-travel fatality rate hits all-time low [MSNBC]
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